Robert Jackson

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

Dear customers,
Finally, Spring is just around the corner.
Spring is the epitome of change and renewal. This is the challenge we all have to face and we are not talking about hanging our winter clothes back in the closet and taking out our spring clothes. It is much more about the change in society and our way of thinking! Digitisation is the keyword, but this term does not cover what it means for us and our environment. It is always about efficiency, availability, sustainability, etc. .
All these issues are progressing rapidly and it is one of Comosoft's tasks to ensure that we offer you suitable solutions with a sense of proportion.
We have all noticed that it is right to digitize everything that needs to be digitized, but exactly this strategy must also take into account our habits and behavior.
Because as J.M. Keynes said: "The biggest difficulty is not moving people to accept new ideas, but forgetting old ones".
So forget about technologies like Flash or Adobe Acrobat! We have something better to offer.

Regards from Hamburg,

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

MAM - HTML5 available
The HTML5 based replacement (MAM) for Asset in LAGO Web is now available. This application can be activated in the central configuration by adding 'MODULE_MAM' to the LAGO/WebCommon/EnabledModules entry.

PDF merging without the need for Adobe Acrobat
The PDF merge functionality in the LAGO Automat is now capable of merging PDF files using native functionality from the operating system instead of requiring an Adobe Acrobat installation (Mac only).

Ability to create, edit and delete search folders for jobs in the HTML5 applications
The jobs list in the HTML5 based LAGO Web applications has been enhanced to allow the creation, editing and deletion of user defined search folders.

Automatic assignment of elements to shops
LAGO now offers the ability to automatically assign elements to shops based on the rules defined for the shops via a LAGO MessageBus plugin which will apply the rules for all shops in currently open projects.

Remove logically deleted elements from the page
LAGO can now be configured to automatically set the working page and raster field number of logically deleted elements to '0'. This is extremely useful to prevent conflicts if new elements are imported to replace those which were logically deleted.

Annotations
The Annotations functionality in the LAGO plugin for Adobe InDesign has been enhanced to allow the raster fields from the page layout to be displayed as either an overlay or and underlay within the InDesign document as a special, non-printable layer.

Scripting enhancement
The LAGO scripting has been enhanced to allow the element level fields to be referenced within scripts at the article or price level.

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

Dear customers,
The Christmas season is once again upon us and after the release of our last major release for this year, we are all preparing for a blessed Christmas and a great end to the year.
Again, the year 2018 was full of events and it is expected that 2019 will be just as eventful, because nothing is as guaranteed as the emergence of innovation and change.
The questions on these topics will be the same, only the answers will be different.
In this sense, we are pleased to be able to provide useful features in this release and wish you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and thank you for the successful collaboration.
We'll see each other again in 2019 and we're looking forward to it.
Best regards,

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

macOS 10.14 Mojave support
LAGO 5.2 has been tested against and officially supports the latest macOS version 10.14 Mojave.

Adobe CC2019 support
With the release of LAGO 5.2, the Adobe InDesign CC2019 and Adobe Photoshop CC2019 versions are now officially supported.

Element to Shop assignment
The application of the automatic shop assignment rules can now be handled via a LAGO MessageBus plugin which routinely applies the rules for all shops in currently open projects.

Search folders in LAGO Proof
The HTML5 based LAGO Proof application has been enhanced to allow display of, as well as the manual creation/editing of, search folders within the Jobs section of the tree.

Visualization of document update
The visualization of document updates has been augmented to also show changes to the element position.

Enhanced InDesign integration
The LAGO plug-in for Adobe InDesign now supports the use of the InDesign clipping path selection when placing supported assets from the asset light table into a document, this allows the use of alpha channels for the clipping path./li>

Extended import configuration
For those customers who transfer data backwards and forwards between LAGO and external systems, LAGO now offers the ability to use the LAGO element key value within the import configuration when performing pure update imports.

Multi-Automat instances
The LAGO Automat has been modified to improve support for multi-automat instances when processing jobs which combine PDFs.

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

The LAGO applications, plugins and servlets available on comosoft.com have been updated. These versions contain numerous enhancements and bug-fixes.
The LAGO installer applications have also been updated to include these versions.
A detailed listing of the handled topics can be found within the Release notes.

With the 2010 release of LAGO4, Comosoft set a global industry standard in omnichannel media production.

In addition to the release of LAGO4, 2010 saw the launch of other major innovations from worold renowned innovative tech manufacturers. Apple delivered unique and forward-looking products to the market and consumers: the iPad was released in January 2010 and they went on to make headlines again in June with the release of the iPhone4. Who does not remember "Antennagate" and Apple's legendary reaction to the design flaw of the antenna!? Facebook announced that they had reached the 500 million members mark and NASA has been waiting for over 50 years for an answer from E.T.

All this is now over 8 years ago. Facebook has become an integral part of our global daily life and has over 2 billion users every day. Apple has now launched the 6th generation iPad and the iPhone has since reached 21 distinct model variations. Only NASA is still waiting ...

Comosoft continued to further perfect LAGO4 to meet the needs of the market. But with the publication of today's newsletter, the time has come and we are proud to announce the next innovation leap from LAGO. Today, with LAGO5, we are publishing the logical conclusion of the last 8 years and are responding to the technological trends of the global software and hardware industry.

By 2020, Adobe, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. will no longer support Flash content. As smart as this technology used to be at the time of it's release, this technology is so insecure today and offers major entry points for malicious software. By converting our flash modules to HTML5, we offer our customers the latest software standard and move with the times incorporating modern requirements, such as responsive design, mobile ease of use and security. In addition to switching to HTML5 technology, LAGO5 also offers great new and, above all, beneficial features.

Stay curious,

Greetings from Hamburg,

Peter Jozefiak
Managing Director

LAGO specific shortcuts
With the introduction of LAGO 5 it is now possible to define shortcut keys in the LAGO Plugin for Adobe InDesign for specific LAGO actions or to open/hide LAGO palettes.

Highlights
LAGO 5 provides additional functionality for the users working in InDesign by providing visual prompts when opening a document which highlight items which have been changed or moved in the document since it was last saved in InDesign, for example changes to placeholder values or newly placed or unplaced components.

LAGO Asset API
LAGO 5 also introduces the initial collection of functionality in the LAGO Asset API which can be used to search for and retrieve assets from LAGO directly without the need for a client application.

Autopopulation
The automatic page population functionality in LAGO has been reworked for LAGO 5 to provide more flexibility whilst eliminating the need to use page layouts as a base. Instead the revised functionality works with element layouts and allows for individual components to be repeated across multiple pages as well as allowing components to be split across multiple pages if they do not fit the available space on the first page on which they are placed.

Notification on import failure
The asset import via XML ticket is now capable of sending an email notification to a defined user(s) if the import of an asset fails, for example if the asset does not meet the required settings for the selected asset type.

Simplified asset import
The asset import in the LAGO Plugin for InDesign has been simplified, instead of having to navigate the import light table, clicking the button will now directly open a file picker where the user can select the file(s) to be uploaded.

Redesigned LAGO Plugin for InDesign
The first steps for the redesign of LAGO 5 is available to see in the LAGO Plugin for InDesign, together with new splash screens, the icons in all LAGO palettes have been redesigned to give a new look. This will be transferred to other LAGO applications in upcoming releases/patches.

Extended PDF export
The PDF export is now capable of copying the exported PDF from a head or content variant which represents a number of project variants into the variant folder for the equivalent variants, ensuring that the variant specific folder contains a PDF file for every document.

Enhanced calculator scripts
The calculator scripting in LAGO has been extended to support the use of element properties.

Asset sync verification
The recently introduced asset synchronization function which allows assets and asset data from one LAGO system to be synchronized with another LAGO system has been further enhanced to allow the primary LAGO system to verify that assets and asset data has been correctly synchronized to the secondary system(s) and to if necessary to re-synchronize assets if differences are detected.

Changes to supported versions
With LAGO 5, support for Adobe InDesign and Photoshop CS6 and CC2015 has been deprecated.
Additionally we are testing the latest macOS 10.14 Mojave operating system to ensure compatibility with LAGO 5 and will notify all customers once it is cleared for use.